US President inches closer to diplomatic crown amid Gaza truce and hostage release bid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : And if Trump can get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to withdraw troops from Gaza City and give up on his plan to take control of the shattered remains of Gaza, if he can stop the carnage that has killed 1,200 people in Israel and more than 60,000 Palestinians, he will have done what many before him tried: outmanoeuvred a difficult and now isolated ally.
55% : But if Trump can hold this deal together, if Hamas gives up its last 20 living hostages this weekend and with them its negotiating leverage, that would be an extraordinary step towards the kind of peace plan Trump, and his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr, have pressed to accomplish, despite many diversions down dark holes.
50% : For Trump, success in this venture is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker -- and a pathway to the Nobel Peace Prize he has so openly coveted.
50% : The "peace" deal Trump heralded on Truth Social on Wednesday evening may look more like another temporary pause in a war that started with Israel's founding in 1948, and has never ended.
50% : " Trump knows that by far, the best international accomplishment of his first term was the Abraham Accords, which normalised relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the first Arab states to recognise Israel in a quarter of a century.
50% : If the peace plan moves forward, Trump may have as legitimate a claim to that Nobel as the four American Presidents who have won the peace prize in the past, though with less bombast and lobbying.

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